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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

I don't take many requests here on CW, but when Katie P. asked for werewolf Wrecks in honor of her friend's new all-girl werewolf book, I was intrigued. Haven't I always said there's a cake for everything? And besides, coming off of Sunday's literary sweets, this seems appropriate.

SO. Werewolf cakes. Right. This should be interesting.

Here we have the elusive half wolf, half cake breed:

Now, you might think that a cake sprouting a wolf head would look odd. That's where the pine sprigs come in.

Ever heard of Hover Cat? Well, here's hover wolf:

Or possibly centipede wolf. I'm not sure.

Whichever it is, here he is mid-transformation:

[maintaining a straight face (which is more than I can say for Mr. Weepy Pee here)]

Um, I get the feeling you're not buying this. That perhaps your confidence in my werewolf wreck-spotting ability is slipping.

Well, look, you can tell this next one's a wolf by the teeny little bone in front of him:

That's clearly the femur from some poor soul torn asunder by this hell hound human hybrid!

The first one is admirably done, but not very appetizing. The second is bizarre, the third a shameful mess. The fourth is what happens when the baker loves a certain tool too much. The fifth isn't so bad when you compare Lon Chaney, Jr.

Why am I reminded of that horrific moment in The Fly II (yeah, they made a sequel, boo) - the only thing I remember in that movie is the military testing the transporter thingee on a dog, and it arrived ... inside out.

Speaking of ears sprouting out from the sides of one's jaw--has anyone else noticed Ralphie's ears (from A Christmas Story)? They basically look like this werewolf's ears--go watch that movie and you'll see for yourself!

First I was scared of the last cake, because his teeth are so long and sharp and gnash-worthy. But then I noticed his pretty bright blue eyes and I just wanted to pinch his little icing-covered cheeks. Awww.

Oh, that first pic reminds me of Piggie Pie, a *hilarious* kids book about a witch matching wits with a wolf, both trying to get some piggies to eat. One of the pictures in the book is of the witch dreaming about a wolf-burger - his whole head in a burger bun, with his snout & fuzzy ears sticking out! Such a good, funny book, flip through it at the library or buy it for your nieces or nephews if you don't have kids.

Why is everyone saying the first one "looks sad"? Wouldn't YOU be if it were YOUR head on a cake?What's he supposed to do, whistle "Dixie"?Wink and make wisecracks? Tell fortunes?Say that he'd lend you money but he's a little short?Sheeeeesh.=^-.-^=

While I was looking at this post, my daughter looked up and said, in a very small, scared voice, "I don't like that one." She meant the pink one in particular, but when she saw the rest, she asked me to close the page!

I am Canadian. I am an amateur baker and magazine reader. Never in my life have I seen something so unintentionally disturbing, strange, and spaghetti icing-ish in an open-to-the-public cooking magazine than the last cake. Lovely, really.

If you're taking any more requests, you have already allowed me to freak out my sister with foot cakes, but now I'd love to freak out our mutual friend. She has a weird thing about eyes. Not all eyes, but some pictures of eyes freak her out. We play a game sometimes called "how about this one" where we pull up google image search and try to figure out what about certain eyes freak her out. Imagine that, except with eye cakes and your witty commentary to join our game. Yes? YES?

Well, the Canadian werewolf looks to me like a cross between King Kong and Teen Wolf - with an exercise headband :) . As for the hell hound human hybrid, all that chocolate icing makes my teeth hurt looking at it, and I'm a chocoholic!

WV creasess - There are a large number of creasess on the hell hound human hybrid.

That first one... why is it on a plain white cake?! The wolf is so well decorated, and he looks rather sweet, but what happened, they ran out of steam??

The second one is kinda cute. Maybe he turned orange in horror of that notion.

The third one... argh! And the fourth-- icing much? As for the last, um, I guess that and the nurses cake prove that we Canadians can wreck cakes with the "best" of them! Wow, a wolf? seriously? I'll never look at Canadian Living magazine the same way again!

I'm tempted to say that the Canadian Living cake looks much more like a Wookie or a Sasquatch than a werewolf. ... but I guarantee it'll taste good, no matter what it looks like. Those recipes are typically fantastic, and a reason why the magazine keeps going after 35 years of publication.

Looks like someone found bigfoot! That last cake looks like him lol. Does this mean if I bit into one of those werewolf cakes I get to become a cake wreck? I would run off laughing looking at what appears to be melting creatures of some sort in the last three pictures..

I laugh at Cake Wrecks all the time, but this is the first time a post has literally taken my breath away... LOL, took me a while to find it again when I saw that wolf head :P I think it got stuck on the "oh my god". Thank you, as always, for brightening my day! :)

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